Celebrating Castro’s revolution – with a picnic

A task force of the Church Council of Greater Seattle will stage a picnic in Wallingford on Sunday, July 26th, to mark the anniversary of the beginning of Fidel Castro’s revolution in Cuba.

The 3 p.m. picnic will honor the 26th of July, the date when Castro and a small band of revolutionaries landed in Cuba more than half-a-century ago. Castro, in ill health, not long ago turned over the reins of power to his brother Raul.

The Seattle/Cuba Friendship Committee has worked to deliver medical supplies to Cuba, defying a longstanding U.S. trade boycott against the Marxist state. A collection will be taken up at the picnic to cover shipping costs.

“Donations can be made to the Church Council of Seattle earmarked for the Seattle Cuba Friendship,” said a picnic announcement. “This is a nonprofit, so the donations are
tax deductible.”

The picnic will be held at Meridian Park on the corner of 50th and Wallingford, on the north side of the park near the playground.